Saudi Arabia, which hosted COP16 in Riyadh in December 2024, has positioned itself as a leading voice on drought and dust ...

For half a century, workers in northern China have been using a technique called "straw checkerboards" to combat desertification.

Presidential Aide, Special Presidential Representative for Climate and Water Resources Ruslan Edelgeriyev held the First Forum of Best Practices for Combatting Desertification and Land Degradation ...

Algeria initiated the Green Dam project in the early 1970s to combat desertification. This ambitious reforestation effort ...

In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index ...

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ULAN BATOR, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 81.9 percent of Mongolia's total territory has been affected by desertification and land degradation to some extent, according to a new national assessment ...

Desertification is a significant problem for arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of Earth, whereby grasslands and shrublands become a comparatively barren desert as vegetation disappears over ...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a greater effort to tackle desertification as he warned the number of dust clouds hitting the north of the country had increased as a result of climate ...